Essays on dramatic monologue

This paper makes a reflective exploration of Browning's 'My Last Duchess' in order to demonstrate the major themes, concerns, etc. of the poet and the usefulness of this genre in convincingly depicting them. A focused study of the poem confirms that it is an archetypal example of the Dramatic Monologue.... As a powerful poetic form used during the Victorian period, Browning makes use of the poetic devices connected with a Dramatic Monologue to recount and dramatize some of the essential Victorian...

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The main characteristic of a Dramatic Monologue is that it is spoken aloud so that the audience hears it clear enough.... The main characteristic of a monologue or a Dramatic Monologue is that it is spoken aloud so that the audience hears it clear enough.... Dramatic Monologue is also a kind of per formative psychoanalysis as it attempts to explore the speaker's mind.... His “Ulysses” is a Dramatic Monologue.... For a poem to become a Dramatic Monologue, it must have a speaker and an implied auditor....

After the poem has been read, point out that in a Dramatic Monologue, one person's voice is heard and there are no other voices heard in the poem.... Describe Dramatic Monologue as a form.... The Dramatic Monologue was a form invented and used principally by Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson, Dante Rossetti, and other Victorians.... A Dramatic Monologue has a speaker and an listener who is implied.... The third thing about a Dramatic Monologue is there is a discrepancy between what the speaker of the poem says and what the reader understands....

The poem also seems to be a Dramatic Monologue.... By using this Dramatic Monologue the protagonist seems to be trying to strike a rapport with the listeners.... The other thing is that this usage of the Dramatic Monologue in the poem allows the poet to draw the psychologically complex characters of Prufrock.... One finds such monologue in works of prose like the plays of Shakespeare One comes across dramatic monologues in passionate love songs as the poem appears to be at the start....

He employs Dramatic Monologue as a powerful tool to explain some historical happenings and also present ordinary things in a dramatic way.... “My last Duchess” was considered as a “dramatic lyric”.... Its dramatic characteristics remind the audience about the famous works of Shakespeare....

Several authors agree that this poem is an effective Dramatic Monologue that exposes the materialism of the Catholic Church through irony and parody.... Another article agrees with the crude worldliness of high-ranking priests, with emphasis on the role of the Dramatic Monologue in satirizing Renaissance Catholic faith.... Rosmarin notes Brownings effective use of Dramatic Monologue to explore the implications of a dying Bishops ramblings.... Browning effectively uses Dramatic Monologue with his lyric poem to emphasize the difference between the teacher and his teachings....

Moreover, the poem employs Dramatic Monologue form.... In the poem, Prufrock is used as a variation of the employed Dramatic Monologue.... There are two things that qualify the form of the poem as Dramatic Monologue.... Besides, the monologue is directed to a listener who is not directly referenced but slightly revealed by the speaker's words....

“A Dramatic Monologue is a piece of literature, produced in a poetic form that must have a speaker and an implied auditor, and that the reader often perceives a gap between what that speaker says and what he or she actually reveals.... rg) In Dramatic Monologue, there is generally one speaker, and one or more listeners.... A Dramatic Monologue usually describes a critical moment of the speaker's life, and offers an indirect revelation of his or her temperament and personality....

Dramatic Monologue'Batter my heart, three persons God' could be utilized or categorized as a Dramatic Monologue as the speaker bares their inner soul or character to the audience.... 'The Tell-Tale Heart' is steeped in dramatic irony as the audience understands that the narrator is simply being plagued by the guilt over killing the man and that it is the guilt that is making him think the dead man's heart is beating.... The narrator is not aware of this, however, which makes it dramatic irony....

A Dramatic Monologue features a single character narration.... The monologue style allows for the audience to judge the narrator's worth and the value of what he is saying.... Browning's Work as a Whole Overall, Browning's poetry could accurately be described as narrative and dramatic.... More specifically, his major works are best described as dramatic monologues....

Eliot uses poetic devices to put the thematic concerns into perspective.... Some of the poetic devices used include metaphors, allusion, imagery, and juxtaposition to help.... ... ... The devices confirm that Eliot is more concerned with something that is larger than a man's obsession with a woman. ...

For example, cases of pain, aging and death define the tone of the Dramatic Monologue.... In essence, Task: Victorian Literature monologue as a literary technique has proved effective in different works of literature.... In essence, Browning monologue plunges readers into a world without trustworthy and moral judgement.... From this perspective, browning has a peculiar ad explanatory monologue that mainly decipher fear as the main ideaContrary to Browning's poetry that mainly focuses on morality and unpredictable life, Alfred Tennyson's Chiefly lyrical (1830 applies objective reality and imagination....

In highlighting the various themes of the play, Shakespeare makes use of Dramatic Monologue through the various characters such as Hamlet himself, to reveal certain aspects that could not otherwise be realized.... The paper "Hamlet Was One of Shakespeare's Most Critically Acclaimed Plays" states that from the monologue, additionally, we get to have an idea of what Hamlet thinks of death and humanity as a whole through the way that he feels disappointed and bitter at the death of a 'fellow of infinite jest....

Dover Beach is a fantastic Dramatic Monologue composed by Mathew Arnold in 1851.... OVER BEACH Introduction: Dover Beach is a fantastic Dramatic Monologue composed by Mathew Arnold in 1851.... The Dramatic Monologue is serious and didactic in its tone.... In this monologue the lover or the speaker talks to his ladylove who is a silent interlocutor.... In this monologue the lover or the speaker talks to his ladylove who is a silent interlocutor....

Since the audience exists in the mind of the speaker, the single voice in the Dramatic Monologue represents its own point of view and interpretation of the events in the narrative. ... Part II (lines 33-43) of the Dramatic Monologue is a direct address by Ulysses to an undefined audience, concerning his son Telemachus.... The theme of Tennyson's Dramatic Monologue may be summed up in his advice to the battle-weary mariners: Lead a purposeful existence while remaining aware of the value of time....

From poetic innovation and discoveries, Robert Browning discovered the idea of Dramatic Monologue which was used also by Alfred Lord Tennyson and Mathew Arnold.... The poetry that was written during this era was thus called the Victorian poetry (literature).... This paper aims at analyzing this era in the poetic context and also in the....

The author of this assignment "Why I Live at the P.... .... by Eudora Welty" gives information about this story where describes a simple dark lady.... This dark lady and her struggle with family and her younger sibling appear to be comic but have many complex themes underlying.... .... ... ... The uniqueness of life portrayed in a small southern community is the most attractive part of the story....

“My Last Duchess” was published in the year 1842, which is considered as one the best examples of poems using Dramatic Monologue by Browning.... Browning's poetry has always been evident of Dramatic Monologue with the intention of expressing controversial concepts.... It was highly used in fiction or dramatic poems specifically during 1896-1920s for encouraging active involvement of audience (Hudson 63-64).... Concentrating on the dramatic and fictions poems, Robert Frost is an ideal example, who has always presented a different perspective of the common facts such as nature or feelings (Poetry Foundation, “Home Burial”)....

‘My Last Duchess' by Robert Browning is an excellent example of a Dramatic Monologue which appeared first in the year 1842 in the poet's ‘Dramatic Lyrics'.... However, it is regarded as more of a short Dramatic Monologue or piece of writing and retains a certain rhyme scale by an iambic parameter and may be read as a story which is being narrated on the basis of certain emotions and feelings.... All three have been written in the form of a dramatic prose or a short story, including Browning's My Last Duchess, even though it is a poem....

The Dramatic Monologue in “Why I live at the P.... Her Dramatic Monologue and arguments are forceful.... The author of the paper "Tactics and Strategies Employed by Writers" argues in a well-organized manner that the writer avails the help of the protagonist or the narrator to felicitate the process of building the story and such an individual is supposed to ably support other characters....

He provided many clues to readers in the poem for reaching at the conclusion in Dramatic Monologue.... Usage of epigraph with monologue helps to keep the poem alive even after many years.... Alfred Prufrock” was written by T.... .... Eliot (1888-1965).... “Prufrock” poetry of T....

Like a Dramatic Monologue, the poem captures the voice of the dead man and the response of the poet.... The author of this essay "American Poems on Social Problems" casts light on the poems depicting social burning issues.... As the text has it, the children you got and that you did not get' refer to the born and the unborn children symbolically hinting at the aborted lives....

In “Dover Beach”, despite variation of rhyme and meter altogether line after line, the poignancy of its Dramatic Monologue chiefly forms the rhythm.... The writer of the essay "Analysis of the Poems Siren Song and Dover Beach" suggests that Margaret Atwood's Siren Song and Matthew Arnold's Dover Beach are both depictive of an oceanic scene which may remind the solitude conducive for a contemplative attitude....

The poem is told from the mother's point of view, and the Dramatic Monologue that is as a result of this point of view helps to establish the mother as the speaker with the son being the listener.... The paper "Mother to Son by Langston Hughes" discusses that the poem, therefore, warns the son about the challenges of life and the negative obstacles that prevent achievement but at the same time it teaches the son to strive to remain optimistic despite the hardships that he may encounter....

The poem is a Dramatic Monologue that shows how discontent.... The poem is a Dramatic Monologue that shows how discontent he is as a king.... Lord Alfred Tennyson's “Ulysses” demonstrates the dissatisfaction of Ulysses in staying at his kingdom, Ithaca.... ... ...

Donne initiates the first stanza with a Dramatic Monologue as the speaker raises her questions with a tone that suggests her position about love and the degree or manner she works it out with her lover.... This research aims to evaluate and present John Donne's “Break of Day” that generates the theme and structure artistically via female perspective where the speaker's affectionate concern is addressed with the attributes of ‘night' and ‘day'....

My Last DuchessThe poem is a Dramatic Monologue written in 1842.... Audience Hills like White Elephants' design carefully elaborate on marriage and gender roles with the audience as eavesdroppers unlike My Last Duchess where the Count's Envoy silently listens to the Dramatic Monologue.... However, in their expression of the marriage and gender roles theme, Browning uses a monologue in the poem while Hemingway uses a conversation.... However, in their expression of the marriage and gender roles theme, Browning uses a monologue in the poem while Hemingway uses a conversation....

The story takes a form of a Dramatic Monologue.... This essay analyzes 'Why I live at the P.... .... by Eudora Welty.... The present research has identified that as much as the story is humorous, there are several underlying theme within it.... The most evident theme is the irreversibility of isolation....

The techniques involved are such as flow of consciousness, mythic allusions, the Dramatic Monologue, narration, literary, and historical.... The waste land is a critical work that holds significance in the influence of American literature.... Eliot poses as one of the most creative authors of the century....

The song is a lot like a Dramatic Monologue.... [Name of Student] [Name of Instructor] [Course] [Date] Foreign Song Analysis The song under analysis is “Mitwa”, a Hindi song from the soundtrack of the 2006 Indian film Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna or Never Say Goodbye.... The lyrics for this song were composed by Javed Akhtar and it has been set to music by the Shankar – Ehsaan – Loy trio of music composers....

Sometimes, the poem seems to be narrated in the form of a Dramatic Monologue in which the narrator seems to talk to himself.... But through this monologue, Hardy successfully conveys the antiwar message to his readers.... Name: Course: Tutor: Date: A Critical Analysis of “The Man He Killed” by Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy's poem, “The Man He Killed”, deals with the absurdity and irrationality of war in general and of the Boer War which occurred in the late 1890s....

She carefully uses Dramatic Monologue and third person narration as a powerful tool in manipulating language and in this regard, critically exposes events bedeviling women in the society.... Silvia Plath was a famous American novelist, poet, and short story writer.... She died of depression at an early age of thirty....

During this Dramatic Monologue and to borrow a term from the theatre__ soliloquy, the medium he uses to develop many diverse motifs and themes including thatof age and the human natural phenomena of aging both physically and psychologically.... During this Dramatic Monologue and to borrow a term from the theatre__ soliloquy, the medium he uses to develop many diverse motifs and themes including that of age and the human natural phenomena of aging both physically and psychologically....

ramatic monologue: Poem or narrative by a single character-revealing an important aspect of the character.... The essay "Analysis of Frost's The Road Not Taken" suggests that poetry is not simply a set of words put together, but something to be understood for the concealed sentiments it attempts to illuminate....

One of the most evident literary forms that Eliot employs in the poem is a Dramatic Monologue.... Another characterization of poetic monologue is that it primarily focuses on the revelation and development of the character of the speaker.... The paper "Literary Allusions in The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock" highlights that repetition is a common literary illusion among poets....

Robert Browning has written a large number of dramatic monologues.... According to W J Long he is the “most representative literary man of the Victorian era”.... Tennyson's monologues though.... ... ... Ulysses deals with the Greek heroe's urge to strive and never to yield ... ...

“Ulysses” By Lord Tennyson         Lord Alfred Tennyson wrote the poem ‘Ulysses' in blank verse and it is in the form of a Dramatic Monologue by the central character.... In this poem Ulysses' monologue has helped to highlight his character.... Ulysses the great warrior has returned home to the island of Ithaca after fighting in the savage Trojan War....

The poem consists of a Dramatic Monologue by the central character that is J.... Name of the Student English Literature (Classic and Modern) Name of the Teacher 11 December 2013 T.... .... Eliot- The Love Song of J.... Alfred Prufrock There is no denying the fact that The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock happens to be one of the most well known poems of the 20th century....

The poem is presented in the form of a “Dramatic Monologue”.... The Problem of Conformity Name of Author Author's Affiliation Author Note Author note with more information about affiliation, research grants, conflict of interest and how to contact The Problem of Conformity Introduction: The essay aims at demonstrating that ‘conformity' is deep rooted in American minds and therefore non Conformity is widely defected issue in the country....

My Last Duchess is a prime example of Dramatic Monologue, where events are narrated to a listener as they unfolded.... Comparison in the voice presentation in: “The River God” (Stevie Smith), “My Last Duchess' (Robert Browning) and “The Hunchback in the Park” (Dylan Thomas)....

Prufrock, contrasting to the conventional expressive love song, is a Dramatic Monologue that concentrates the despondent character thrashing at the back of worthless communal masquerades in cities while Magi offers a negative examination of the journey of the Three Wise Men to the birth of Christ and details the alienation of one magus for whom it results in the death of his world.... The narrator unveils through a Dramatic Monologue the difficulties and dissatisfaction of life....

Prufrock, contrasting to the conventional expressive love song, is a Dramatic Monologue that concentrates the despondent character thrashing at the back of worthless communal masquerades in cities while Magi offers a negative examination of the journey of the Three Wise Men to the birth of Christ and details the alienation of one magus for whom it results in the death of his world.... The narrator unveils through a Dramatic Monologue the difficulties and dissatisfaction of life....

The question is why he went to his office and recorded his Dramatic Monologue instead of fulfilling his plan to escape.... It was based on a real crime which shocked everyone.... Its plot is dynamic and intriguing from its very first scene – a man walks on crutches against the dark background scored by thrilling music....

edusa by Carol Ann Duffy is a Dramatic Monologue told in the first person.... It has been used for centuries to communicate feelings on things that happen in the immediate environments.... People have used poetry to communicate personal experiences.... In communicating one's personal experience through poetry, one may decide to....

Her parents were David and Keziah Brooks.... Gwendolys personal life influenced her writing.... In 1936, at the age of thirteen years she published her first poem The American Childhood.... ... ... Gwendolyn's excellence in poem writing manifested in 1950 when she received the Pulitzer Prize, an honor awarded for poetry (Evans 223)....

Eliot employs the form that is a Dramatic Monologue or a soliloquy in which the speaker's (J.... This monologue accelerates torture in his mind as he hears comments made by others about his inadequacies, which causes him to be hard on himself for, ever thinking that it was possible to interact with the woman emotionally....

Eliot uses this kind of Dramatic Monologue in a stream of consciousness mode, which means he is telling the story as if he is thinking it while he writes without worrying about drawing connections between thoughts or restricting his ideas to a logical progress.... Considered one of the most influential poets of the 20th century, Thomas Stearns (T....

These calamities, restlessness, doubts of the entire Victorian age are presented in a Dramatic Monologue.... These calamities, restlessness, doubts of the entire Victorian age are presented in a Dramatic Monologue.... Mathew Arnold's “Dover Beach” is a poem with a melancholy note....

Tom's confession or Dramatic Monologue has manifold implications within its brief scope.... om's confession or Dramatic Monologue has manifold implications within its brief scope.... Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, the earliest of his major dramatic creations, is one of the most brilliant examples where the dramatist has brilliantly expressed elements of human transience, from extreme mundane to fancy, from real to surreal.... While in the other dramas Tennessee Williams was reflecting over the characters and flow of events from a neutral, social perspective, in this play he actually focused over dramatic narrative from an autobiographical perspective....